Many – most? – of us tend to repeat certain meals at home and we know what we like to drink with them – and now and again we try something a bit different. But home is about comfort and coziness, while dining out is about splashing out socially and emotionally, whether or not you […]
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Zap! Ticino sommelier’s speedy champagne uncorking
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s Mirko Rainier has just entered the Guinness World Records , reports Swiss public broadcaster RTS (you won’t yet find him officially listed there), for uncorking 47 bottles of champagne in one minute, using a saber. Rainier, sommelier and manager of the Atenaeo del vino restaurant in Mendrisio, canton Ticino, carried out […]
Sending wine back in a restaurant
David Lynch, sommelier and Bon Appetit writer, suggests that you should send back a wine if you don’t like what you ordered in a restaurant where a sommelier helped you decide, even if there is nothing wrong with it. For me, this sounds very American, in the spirit of buying and returning clothes just because […]
Art, including Picasso, worth 1/2 million dollars found at ex-sommelier’s home
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in New Jersey in the US have found 11 stolen artworks, including a Picaosso etching, in a Hoboken apartment. The man who has the apartment was already being held in California on $5 million bail after he was charged with stealing “Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman),” a 1965 pencil drawing […]
World Champion Pinot Noir winery in Graubuenden
Grape variety growing rapidly in international popularity; Swiss Pinot Noirs among best Sierre, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Champion Pinot Noir producer is a Graubuenden winery, Weingut Donatsch Malans, for its Donatsch Pinot Noir Passion. The award, announced 2 September by the Mondial du Pinot Noir international wine competition, is given to the winery that […]